The obvious parallels between the speech of Alejandro Lerroux, in exercise 3 of History exam of selectivity this Thursday, and the stories of certain youtubers and ‘influencers’, men, toxic, who speak into the ear -through their helmets- to young people, to children, in 2023. “Today’s young barbarians, enter the decadent and miserable civilization of this unfortunate country”, begins the text ”Rebels! Rebels!…’, published in 1906 in ‘La Rebeldía’ and reproduced in the first university entrance exam this Thursday in Catalonia.
The test also asks about the iconic photograph of the FAI militia women by Pérez de Rozas in August 1936 in Barcelona
The second day of the PAU It has started without scares. The kids have left at 10 in the morning of history exam satisfied as their faces said and confirmed. “It has been quite easy, like yesterday, but you’ll see tomorrow Catalan, I’m sure they’ll go too far”, they feared between nervous laughs in the corridors of the UPF Ciutadella Campus after performing the first test of the day, who also asked for a speech of the fascist Ramón Serrano Suñer, brother-in-law of the dictator, in 1941. A text from the then Minister of Foreign Affairs in which he states that “Russia is guilty! Guilty of our civil war. Blame for the death of José Antonio, our founder, and the death of so many comrades and so many soldiers who fell in that war due to the aggression of communism. The extermination of Russia is a requirement of history and the future of Europe”.
He history examcomposed by four exercises, of which the students had to choose two, also include the comment two iconic images. A, the photography of Carlos Pérez de Rozas of a group of militia women from the FAI coming out in front August 1936 in Barcelona. Another, exercise 1 of the test, a cover of ‘La Vanguardia’ from April 17, 1931 in which you can see the portrait of a smiling woman, with the caption of the photo “Pretty lady walking the republican flagin front of the town hall.
The smile she comes out with Nicoa young man from La Pau neighborhood in Barcelonafrom the exam History It has nothing to envy to the woman on the cover. “The question of the Fets d’October 1934 we had practiced it in class. identical! When I have seen it, I have had it very clear”, affirms with the illuminated face this student -already for a short time- of the bernat metge institute from La Verneda and La Pau.
The 1932 Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, the “political and institutional” characteristics of the Franco regime either the “social and worker” conflict in Spain between 1902 and 1923 are other questions on the History exam, the penultimate of the general phase common subjects. The last one will be this Friday, also the last day of the tests, at 9 in the morning. He Catalan test that the urban legend among students suggests that it must be difficult for sure, “to compensate.”
The Physics Exception
Among the five tests carried out so far, there have only been more or less widespread complaints because of its difficulty physics exam this Wednesday afternoon.
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After examination of Catalan language and literature tomorrow morning, only the last two exams of the specific phase will remain (optional, to raise grade). It is the case of Electrical engineering (Friday, at 12 noon), test to which the students of the Instituto Banús de Cerdanyola have resigned after months without a substitute for the subject (One of the problems, the lack of substitutes, which has marked this school year).
Once this stressful week is over, the almost 42,000 Catalan students that during these three days they are taking the university entrance exams (with a weight of 40% when calculating the access grade), they will have to wait until the June 22, the date on which the notes will be published.